NH's New Pro-Choice Leadership Team
New Hampshire’s New Pro-Choice Leadership Team: Pilar Olivo, Susan Arnold, Monica Ciolfi & Liz Hager Experienced activists with NARAL Pro-Choice New Hampshire are stepping into new roles. After seven years as a volunteer board leader, Pilar Olivo is the new interim executive director for NARAL Pro-Choice New Hampshire. Susan Arnold has resumed the role of board chair of NARAL Pro-Choice New Hampshire. Monica Ciolfi is leading the board of NARAL Pro-Choice New Hampshire Foundation. Former Republican state representative Liz Hager is the chair of the NARAL Pro-Choice NH PAC. “This team has the energy, the commitment, and the know-how to continue and heighten the vitality of this critical pro-choice organization,” said interim Executive Director Olivo. Olivo has been active in the reproductive rights movement since 1989—when she began as a clinic escort at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Brookline, MA. In 1991, she was a volunteer coordinator in Washington for the state-wide citizen initiative campaign that codified Roe v. Wade. For the state senate elections in 1994, she was NPCNH’s electoral organizer. She served as NPCNH’s board treasurer from 1995-1997. For the past nine years, Olivo has devoted her time to raising her three children and local volunteer activities in Concord. Arnold was the political director of NARAL Pro-Choice NH from 1988-1996 under long-time director Peg Dobbie before serving as board chair from 2002-2006. Arnold was the director of policy for Governor Jeanne Shaheen from 1997 to 2002. She is now the director of conservation for the Appalachian Mountain Club. Ciolfi has been active in the local pro-choice community since 1989, when she joined the Board of the New Hampshire Family Planning Council. She has been a NARAL Pro-Choice NH Board member since 2004. Ciolfi lives in Concord and administers the state employee health benefit program. Hager is a longtime leader in the pro-choice community in New Hampshire. While a legislator, she led the successful repeal of the state’s unconstitutional parental notice law. She received NPCNH’s Champion for Choice Award in 2009 and is currently the chair of the NARAL Pro-Choice America PAC. Hager is the executive director of the United Way of Merrimack County.
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